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THE HARVARD BOOK 






Prepared for the 

Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention 

of the 

American Rankers Association 



BOSTON 
OCTOBER SIX TO TEN, NINETEEN THIRTEEN 






COPYRIGHT 1913 

H. B. HUMPHREY COMPANY 

BOSTON 



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UNIVERSITY GUIDES 

Guides will be on hand at the Subway Entrance in Harvard Square on the 
mornings of October 6, 7, 8 and 9 at 10: 30, and in the afternoon of the same days 
at 2:30, and at other times during these days at No. 5 University Hall, to conduct 
the visitors about the grounds of the University and to other points of interest in 
Cambridge. The guides will be in charge of Charles A. Mahady, Head Guide, 
No. 5 University Hall. 





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EARLY VIEW OF HARVARD COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY 

A BRIEF STATEMENT 



T TARVARD College was founded in 1636. The 
General Court of Massachusetts Bay gave four 
hundred pounds towards a college to be founded at New- 
towne. The next year the name of the town was changed 
to Cambridge. 

In 1638 John Harvard, a clergyman, dying at 
Charlestown, left his library of two hundred and sixty 
volumes and half of his fortune to the infant college. In 
his honor it was called Harvard College. 

The first President, Henry Dunster, entered upon 
his duties in 1643. Two years later the first class, num- 



bering nine, was graduated. For over half a century 
Harvard was the only college in the country. 

The University includes Harvard College and the 
following graduate schools : Divinity, Law, Medicine, 
Arts and Sciences, Applied Sciences, and Business Admin- 
istration. This organization is unique among educational 
institutions. Harvard College seeks to maintain the more 
liberal course of study as an essential part of our Ameri- 
can Educational System. 

The Graduate Schools aim to give specialized in- 
struction in the various professional lines of work. For 



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admission to candidacy for a professional degree, a prior 
degree from a recognized college or technical school is 
required. 

The Graduate School of Business Administration 
offers preparation for those branches of business to which 
a professional training may suitably be given, such as 
transportation, banking, insurance, accounting and audit- 
ing. 

The Graduate School of Applied Science, based 
on the Lawrence Scientific School and the Bussey Institu- 
tion, comprises the technical work in engineering, in 
mining and metallurgy, in architecture, in landscape 
architecture, forestry, agriculture, biology and other 
scientific subjects. Besides the generous gift from the 
Hon. Abbott Lawrence and the endowment left by 



Benjamin Bussey, the school is supported by a bequest of 
Mr. Gordan Mckay of approximately five million dollars. 

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, having 
some 450 students, gives special instruction and oppor- 
tunities for original research in all the branches of educa- 
tion of which an academic student gets a general 
knowledge — languages, literature, history, philosophy, 
music, physics, mathematics, anthropology, fine arts, Eng- 
lish and many other topics. 

The material resources are represented by an 
invested income-bearing endowment of about twenty-two 
million dollars, and buildings, laboratories, etc., valued at 
about twelve million dollars. The grounds of the Uni- 
versity cover an area of over 3300 acres ; about 80 in 
Cambridge, 500 in Boston, 700 at Squam Lake in New 



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Hampshire and 2000 in the Forest at Petersham. 
The Harvard University Library, composed of 
some 49 smaller libraries, is at least the fourth, and possibly 
the third library, in size, in the country, — the Congres- 
sional Library being first, and the Boston Public Library 
being second. It contained in 1913, 1,864,900 volumes 
and pamphlets. The facilities for obtaining library books 
enable a student to reduce his expenses for books to the 
cost of text books which he must use every day. The 
new Widener Memorial Library, a gift from Mrs. George 
D. Widener in memory of her son, who at the age of 27 
had already made his mark as a collector of rare and 
valuable books, which will include both the University 
Library, and the Widener collection, is now in process of 
construction. 



The two dining halls of the University, Memorial 
and Randall Halls, are run by student associations on the 
co-operative plan, securing board for their members at cost. 
Memorial Hall, the larger of the two, with a member- 
ship of about thirteen hundred, is conducted on the table 
d'hote plan and the average cost is about $5.25 per week. 

The board in Randall Hall, which has a member- 
ship of eleven hundred, is entirely a la carte and averages 
about $3.75 per week. 

The tuition fees in the University vary in the 
several schools. In the undergradute department the fee 
is $150 for a four year course, and in the medical school 
$200. About $500 is a fair estimate of cost for a year 
at college, exclusive of laundry, expenditure for books, 
etc. More than $145,000 is distributed annually by the 



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University for prizes, scholarship, fellowship and bene- 
ficiary aid. There are under the Faculty of Arts and 
Sciences 457 fellowships and scholarships, with a total 
income of $1 14,333. Of these 293 scholarships, with an 
income of $64,733., are for undergraduates in Harvard 
College, and for these undergraduates there is also avail- 
able from the Beneficiary Aid, the Loan Funds, and the 
Price Greenleaf Fund, $23,900. Students seeking em- 
ployment while in college are greatly assisted by the 
Appointments Office, which seeks to provide occupation, 
both temporary and permanent, for men who register for 
various kinds of work. During the academic year 1908- 
1909, the Appointments Office secured over I960 tem- 
porary jobs for resident students. 

On the staff of the University there are 618 officers 



of instruction, and 121 officers of administration, preach- 
ers, curators, etc. Not counting the students in the Sum- 
mer School (1410), or the students in Radcliffe College 
(women 470), the number of students in Harvard 
University in 1912-13 was 4279. There are 16 dormi- 
tories belonging to the University, 7 of which surround 
the College Yard. 

There are a number of clubs, the activities of 
which are designed to supplement the instruction of the 
University in various lines, — the Cercle Francaise, 
Deutscher Verein, Circolo Italiano, the Natural History 
Society, etc. Every year both the French and German 
clubs produce some play or musical comedy. 

Of the forty or more social clubs in the college 
only a small number are secret societies of fraternities, 

(Continued on pages 10 and 12.) 



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\/t ASSACHUSETTS HALL is the oldest building of 
the College now standing. It was built from a grant 
of thirty-five hundred pounds made in 1718 by the 
Province of Massachusetts and was first used as a dormi- 
tory. After the battle of Lexington it was used as a 
barracks by the Continental soldiers. 

About one hundred years after its erection the lower 
pai't of the building was given over for lectures, etc., and 
in 1870 the entire building was devoted to the public uses 
of the University. 




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so-called, and only a very small number are mutually 
exclusive. A number have club houses, but without 
dormitory accommodations. There are also a number 
of clubs devoted to religious and social service activities. 
Many of these have their headquarters in the Phillips 
Brooks House, a simple and beautiful memorial to Bishop 
Brooks. The Phillips Brooks House Association is a 
large organization comprising the various constituent 
societies, and besides its different student activities, it 
carries on various forms of social service and charitable 
work in Cambridge and Boston. Of the several musical 
clubs the Pierian Sodality, an organization for orchestral 
music, founded in 1806, is probably the oldest musical 
association in the country. 

Great interest is taken by the undergraduates in 



the several periodical publications. These are five in 
number. The Harvard Crimson appears every morning, 
and fills the same place in the life of the student as that 
of the daily newspaper in the general community; the 
Lampoon, which is humorous, and the Advocate are pub- 
lished fortnightly; the Harvard Monthly and Harvard 
Illustrated are each published once a month. 

Summer courses have been given at Harvard since 
1871. About one hundred courses now given include 
almost all the usual branches of regular college work. 
Tests and examinations of the same kind and strictness as 
those applied in Harvard College are given in each course; 
and most of the the summer courses are accepted for a 
Harvard degree. About 1,000 students register each 
year in the Summer School. 



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JJARVARD HALL was built in 1765-66 by the 

Province of Massachusetts, at a cost of $23,000, to 
replace the first Harvard Hall which was destroyed by 
fire in 1764. 

As the older building was occupied at the time by 
the General Court, which had been driven from Boston by 
the smallpox, the Province considered itself responsible 
for the loss, and therefore built the present Harvard Hall. 

It was used during the Revolution by the Conti- 
nental troops, and Washington was received here in 1789. 

It first contained the chapel, the library, and the 
dining hall of the college. Today it is used for lectures 
and recitations, and contains the libraries of the Depart- 
ments of the Classics, History and Government, and 
Economies. 




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Athletics at Harvard are varied, and it is aimed 
to give an opportunity to as many men as possible to 
obtain healthy bodily exercise. The gymnasium, which 
is near the dormitories in the Yard, has locker accommo- 
dations for 2,400 students, and regular instruction is 
given throughout the year in various gymnastic sports. 
On Jarvis, Holmes, and Soldier's Fields there are 60 
tennis courts, all of which are occupied on fair afternoons. 
The two boat houses, the Weld and the University, have 
locker accommodations for 750 and 500 students respec- 
tively, and are equipped with 28 eight-oared shells and 
barges, and 60 four-oar, pair-oar, and single shells and 
wherries. Free instruction in rowing is given to members. 
On Soldier's Field, 63 acres in area, are the Locker 
Building, with 1,500 lockers and large shower baths, the 



baseball cage, covering an area of 7,700 square feet, the 
Stadium, seating 25,000 persons, with football field and 
running track, a second football field and several baseball 
fields. The Varsity, class and scrub games and races, the 
Leiter Cup Series in baseball, and the dormitory boat 
races, give excellent and interesting sport for all. 

Realizing how inadequately such a souvenir pam- 
phlet can cover a subject so large, we cordially urge any 
visitor of the American Bankers 1 Association, Boston 
Convention, Oct. 6-10, 1913, who may be further inter- 
ested in any branch of Harvard University, to apply for 
the desired information to Mr. Morris Gray, Jr., 4 Uni- 
versity Hall, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thurs- 
day, Oct. 6, 7, 8 or 9, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 

5 P.M. 



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JJOLWORTY HALL was built in 1812 at a cost of 
$25,000, from the proceeds of a lottery authorized 
by the State of Massachusetts. It was named for Sir 
Matthew Holworthy, an English merchant who left the 
College one thousand pounds, the largest single gift re- 
ceived in the seventeenth century. It is used as a dormi- 
tory, and occupied almost exclusively by members of the 
Senior Class. 

Room 12, which was visited in 1860 by the Prince 
of Wales (later Edward VII) and in 1871 by the Grand 
Duke Alexis of Russia, contains the pictures of these per- 
sonages presented by themselves. 





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T JNIVERSITY HALL was built in 1813-15 ; and was designed by Charles Bulfinch, who also 
designed the Massachusetts State House and the Capitol at Washington. 

It at first contained Students 1 Commons, Chapel and Lecture rooms. The entire building is 
now devoted to administrative purposes, containing the offices of President, Secretary of the Cor- 
poration and the Deans of the various departments. In front of the building is a map of the 
College Yard made of concrete and bronze, which our visitors will find it profitable to study. 

Here were entertained Presidents Munroe, Jackson and Van Buren, and the Marquis de 
Lafayette. 



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MEMORIAL HALL 



NELSON ROBINSON, JR., HALL 



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A/f EMORIAL HALL was built in 1870 with funds 
given by graduates and friends of the University, 
as a Memorial to the sons of Harvard who fought for the 
Union, and especially for those who fell. At its eastern 
end is Sanders Theatre, named for Charles Sanders, of 
the Class of 1802, from whose bequest it was built, 
where the Commencement Day Exercises are held annu- 
ally in June. At its western end is the Dining Hall, 
which accommodates about nine hundred men. The 
stained glass windows in the north and south are all 
memorial windows, most of them given by College classes. 
In the transept between the theatre and the Dining 



Hall are marble tablets inscribed with the names of the 
students and graduates who fell in the war for the Union. 
The dates of their deaths and the places where they fell 
are also given. Above the tablets are various inscrip- 
tions. 



"DOBINSON HALL, the Department of Architecture, 

was built in 1900-01. 

The building, equipment and endowment were given 
by the parents of Nelson Robinson, Jr., Class of 1900, 
who died in his Junior year. 



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T^HE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM comprehends the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Botanical, 
Geological, Mineralogical Museums, and the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and 
Ethnology. It had its start in the collections which Louis Agassiz began privately even before 
he came to Harvard in 1847. These collections were transferred to the college in 1852, and 
continued to grow under Professor Agassiz's enthusiastic administration. 

In the Botanical Museum is located the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants 
and Flowers given by Mrs. Charles Eliot Ware, and her daughter, Miss Mary Lee Ware, in 
memory of Charles Eliot Ware, of the Class of 1834. This is a unique collection of glass models, 
begun in 1886 by Leopold Blaschka, and now carried on by his son Rudolph. It contains seven 
hundred and twenty different specimens, with thirty-six hundred individual pieces of glass, and 
illustrating about seven hundred different species. 




UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 




AUSTIN HALL (THE LAW SCHOOL) 



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A USTIN HALL, the Law School, was built in 1883, a gift of Edward Austin. 

The new building, Langdell Hall, back of Austin Hall, was completed about 1908, and 
named after Christopher C. Langdell, the author of the now universal case system, and contains 
the larger part of the library. It also contains a unique collection of portraits of eminent judges 
and lawyers. 

The Law School was established in 1817, and is the oldest of the existing law schools in the 
country. It has become national in its character, as shown by the fact of the 800 students 
enrolled, about 70 per cent are graduates of colleges other than Harvard, about 127 institu- 
tions being represented. About 60 per cent of the students in the School are from outside of New 
England, and about 60 per cent of the graduates are practising law outside of New England. 

The Law Library, which Prof. Dicey, of Oxford, has pronounced "the most perfect collection 
of legal records in the English speaking world." now numbers over 115,000 volumes. 



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JJADCLIFFE COLLEGE, incorporated in 1882 as "Society for the Collegiate Instruction of 
Women," was named RadclifFe College in 1894. Though a distinct institution from Harvard, 
the President and Fellows of Harvard have been constituted by it a Board of visitors, and the 
administration of the affairs of RadclifFe College is subject to their direction and control. The 
RadclifFe degree is signed by the President of Harvard. 




ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ HOUSE (RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 




THE STILLMAN INFIRMARY 



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CTILLMAN INFIRMARY, a hospital for Harvard students, erected in 1901, was provided by 
Mr. James Stillman of New York City, who gave $175,000 for this use. The buildings are 
located on Mt. Auburn Street, close to the Cambridge Hospital, and across the river from the 
Stadium. 

The auxiliary building contains isolation rooms and wards for contagious cases, and is 
separated from the main building by an open corridor. 

All students in the Cambridge departments of the University are charged an annual fee of 
$4.00, which entitles them to a bed, nursing, etc., for a period not exceeding two weeks. 



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HpHE UNIVERSITY BOAT HOUSE was a gift from the Harvard Club of New York City; 

built in 1901, at a cost of $42,000. 

Rowing is doubtlessly the oldest athletic sport now flourishing at Cambridge. As early as 
1844 class races were started by the class of 1846. In 1852 the long series of Yale-Harvard 
races began on Lake Quinsigamond, the Oneida of Harvard winning by four tengths from the 
Shawmut of Yale. 

Since 1879 the Yale-Harvard races have been rowed at New London, Connecticut. 

Two Harvard crews have rowed races in England, a four-oar against Oxford in 1869, and 
an eight-oar against Cambridge in 1906. Both Harvard crews were beaten. 




'VARSITY BOAT HOUSE 




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BOAT HOUSES. STADIUM AND ATHLETIC FIELDS 



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HTHE STADIUM was first made possible by a gift of $100,000 from the class of 1879 in 1903. 

The Harvard Athletic Committee contributed the balance. The field measures 478 feet by 
230 feet, and on this field are laid out the running track and the "gridiron," where track contests 
and football games are held. 

Afternoon Class Day exercises are held here. 

The seating capacity is about 24,000, and by using temporary seats may be raised to 45,000- 



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HPHE MEDICAL SCHOOL, the oldest of Harvard's professional schools, was founded in 1781, 
mainly through the efforts of John Warren, a brilliant young army surgeon of the Revolution, 

and a brother of Joseph Warren who fell at Bunker Hill. 

In 1783 the lectures were given in Cambridge. In 1810 the lectures were transferred to 

Boston. The School had various homes on Mason, North Grove and Boylston Streets. 

The new Medical School buildings, situated in Brookline, were dedicated in September, 1906. 

Three of the five buildings are a gift of J. Pierpont Morgan as a memorial to his father. Mrs. 

Collis P. Huntington of New York and Mr. David Sears of Boston each gave one of the other 

buildings. At the same time a million dollars was given for endowment by John D. Rockefeller, 

and other friends of medical science also contributed liberally. 




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THE HARVARD UNION 



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T^HE HARVARD UNION is the most inclusive of all Harvard clubs, and its membership is 
open to all past and present members of Harvard University. It is the common meeting 
ground for all Harvard men. Its living room (nearly 100 feet long and 40 feet wide) is the 
accepted place for mass meetings and for large gatherings of graduates and undergraduates. 

This building was erected, at a cost of about $200,000, as a memorial to the Harvard men 
who died in the war with Spain. Major Henry L. Higginson of Boston headed the list of con- 
tributors with $150,000, and the rest was subscribed by other graduates. The building was dedi- 
cated October 15, 1901. 

The Union has all the conveniences of a large and well-appointed club house, including a 
large dining room, used daily by members and their guests, and an excellent library of over 
6,000 volumes. Besides the Trophy Room, the various committee rooms, etc., are the quarters 
used by three of the College papers, — the Advocate, Crimson and Monthly. 



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\V/"ADSWORTH HOUSE, the oldest building now 
standing except Massachusetts Hall, was built 
partly with a grant of =£"1,000 made by the General 
Court of Massachusetts Bay in 1726, the year after Presi- 
dent Wadsworth was inaugurated. At first called the 
President's House, it was occupied by successive presidents 
until 1849. It was the headquarters of Washington and 
Lee for a short time in 1775, and undoubtedly some of 
the first despatches sent by Washington to Congress, to 
Richard Henry Lee and to General Schuyler, were written 
in Wadsworth. Towards the close of the century the 
building was enlarged, and after 1849 it was used as a 
dormitory and boarding house for students. It is at 
present used as a dormitory, but one room is given over 
to the Preacher of the University for the time being. 



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A PPLETON CHAPEL, devoted solely 
to religious worship, was the gift of 
Samuel Appleton of Boston, who left 
$200,000 to the college with the direction 
that one fourth of it should be spent for 
a chapel. 

Daily services are held here during 
the college year at 8:45 a.m. on week 
days, and on Sunday evenings at 7 : 30 
o'clock. 




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has been compiled for the 

AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION CONVENTION OF 1913 

THE HARVARD COMMITTEE 
OF THE ASSOCIATED BANKS, TRUST COMPANIES AND BANKERS OF BOSTON 



CASPAR G. BACON, Chairman. 
ELLIOT G. MEARS. MORRIS GRAY, Jr. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



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